(® by Ib 5. Walsh.)
7 WAS a mest unpleasant day
without and within. Without ram
_ was falling heavily. The roof
" leaked like a sieve; Fanny had
«d to go twice into the attic with a
isin to catch the drip. A noisy wind
astted the ancient elms and cast down
wad twigs with uncanny thumps. The
70 Graham girls were not on good
rms. Julia had burned her right
ind and so had deen obliged to stay
ye from her work. That had made
ir employer cross. Fanny had a
id. With a handkerchief held to
sr nose she was checking up the
onthly expenses of the house. As
yokkeeper for Johnson & Co. she was
jick at figures. To her disgust she
und that they bad exceeded their
et.
The telephone bell brought them
sth to their feet: “I think it’s for
e” Fanny said. She sometimes re-
sived telephone calls from Joe Car-
m, who also worked for Johnson &
o. But now as she heard the first
ords a look of dismay crossed her
ce. With a faintly uttered “Thank
ou” she hung up the receiver and
sllapsed into a chair. “It’s a tele-
pam from Cousin Cora Piper,” she
1id. “She's coming here today. That
leans on the 5:20 express.”
There was a silence while Julia di-
ested this disagreeable bit of infor-
ation. “What's she coming for?"
he asked.
Fanny made a despairing gesture
/ith the damp handkerchief. “Don’t
sk me.”
“This house is a sight,” said Julia.
And only enough cake for our Sup-
er. Do you remember that other
ime she visited us, Fanny? She wore
/idow’s weeds. There was something
srong with her hands and she wore
s00l mittens all the time except when
he was at the table. Think what she
aust be like now!”
“Oh, have a heart 1» wailed Fann)
n anguish.
For the rest of the day the two sis
ers were busy, despite Julia’s band:
1iged hand and Fanny’s unhappy nose.g
“We'll have to stuff the pinochle
)ack and this stock of naughty maga
ines out of sight,” said Fanny. i
juppose she’ll hate our dear little ra-
lio. And we won't be able to have
woffee a single morning while she’s
sere. She loathes coffee.”
«Wonder how long she'll stay?
sked Julia, hustling one-handedly as
tor dear life. ‘But we can judge from
;he amount of luggage she brings.”
“Last time she brought three bags
and a trunk,” returned Fanny unfeel-
ingly.
By five o'clock everything was fi.
readiness for the guest. Even though
they dreaded Cousin Cora like the
plague, they were both determined to
pehave hospitably and kindly. After
all, she was poor, dear father’s cousin
and he had always been fond of her
as long as he lived. After having sent
Mr. Pierson, a neighboring cabman, to
the train to meet Cousin Cora, Julia
dashed over to Dr. Mott's for some
soothing unguent for her smarting
hand and an envelope of cold tablets
for Fanny.
Half an hour passed. No guest.
Mr. Pierson telephoned that he “didn’t
see anything of the old lady.” She
had evidently missed the train. There
was not another until near midnight.
The sisters were just sitting down
0 a comforting cup of tea when
a blue coupe whirled into their drive
under the rocking elms. Out leaped
a figure in a scarlet slicker. The door
opened. “Here I am 1” cried a gay
voice.
It was Cousin Cora. For an in-
stant the two girls were too stunned
to do more than stare at her.
Cousin Cora was a different being
from the one they reluctantly recalled.
Her silvery hair was bobbed and
‘waved. her smart frock was high
above her graceful silk-clad ankles.
She nsed powder, a touch of rouge
and eyebrow pencil. She was lively
and lovely. And as she sipped her
second cup of coffee—she had asked
for coffee—she told the girls how sue
had come near being overhauled by a
traffic cop in her haste to reach her
destination. .
“I got a week's leave of absence,”
she said. “I’m assistant to Mme.
Luise. Her name is really Mary Steb-
bins, but she runs a beauty shop and
has to have everything in keeping.”
She opened a dainty overnight bag,
rummaged amid the bits of silken
wearing apparel it contained, found
two boxes and gave one to each girl.
The boxes contained a deliciously per-
fumed and exquisite set of toiletries,
such as the girls had never used in
their lives.
Next day Cousin Cora insisted that
a8 her hostesses were able to go to
work they should do so. Never mind
about lunch, she’d see to that.
“Don’t you girls know any young
folks?’ she asked at moon. “Aren’t
there any nice chaps hanging round
you?”
Fanny flushed. “There's Joe Car
son—" she faltered.
“And Judson Hart,” . murmured
Julia.
“All rightie. Invite them to dinner
tonight. Pll have everything rendy
when you get home. You know, girls,
§ can’t sit down here and vegetate.
fm used to a lot going on. Ive got
to have something to amuse me. As
1 remember it this burg is dead as a
door-nail at this particular season.
Fun to the phone, Fanny, and tell your
‘ Doctor Parr, of whom it was said
Joe Carson that he'll miss the best |
chicken dinner he ever sat dowa te
\# he is not here promptly at 6:30.”
The girls were astonished at the
readiness with which both young men
accepted their timid {nvitations. When
they got home at six they found Cousin
Cora flying about In a blue-beaded
evepe which had come out of the over
night bag miraculously. The kitchem
was full of delightful smells. The
table glowed with roses.
Fanny changed her dress hastily.
Temptation seized her and she di
into Mme. Luise's box. She noticed
that Julia had done the same. The
party was a great success, although
while playing pinochle afterward Cou-
sin Cora fiirted with Joe Carson in a
way that turned Fanny hot and cold.
During the rest of the week there
was excitement in the old gray house
ander the elms. Joe Carson suddenly
became devoted to the whole family.
He sent flowers, candy. He took the
three women to dinner and the
“movies.” Then Julia dropped out.
She had to have more time for Jud-
son Hart. “Mark my word, Joe's lost
his head over Cora,” Julia said. “I
think it's awful the way she carries
on with him.” Fanny, too, thought it
was awful. She was jealous. And
jealousy aided by Mme. Luise’s magie
vox was becoming to her.
Sunday afternoon she declined to go
driving in Cora’s blue coupe. So Cora
and Joe went off alone. Julia had
gone driving with Judson and another
couple. Left alone, Fanny’s rage got
the better of her. When Cora re-
turned breezily she pitched into her.
“you're a meddling, underhanded
old thing!” she sobbed. “You've spoiled
my life.”
“Oh, shucks!” said Cora. “Here
I've been doing my best to make a
match for you. And I've got it in the
neck. That's always the way.”
Fanny gasped. “Do you vow upoep
your word and honor—" she began.
“You make me tired,” sneered Cora. |
«Don't you know that you'd never
have aroused the least interest in him
if I hadn't played you up for all you're
worth? That's what I've been doing.
Let me tell you, Fanny, 1 am the wi-
dow of a real man; I shall never be
anything else 1 could have married
your father,
William. We had eleven wonderful
years. We had a son like William.
He died. 1 thought my heart was
broken. But 1 didn’t know what grief
was till I lost my husband. He went :
out to his work whistling one morn-
ing just like this morning was. They
brought him pack”—Cora pushed her
silvery hair back from her face. “I
existed a year afterward. Then I
saw I wasn't going to die in a hurry.
I didn’t have anything to live on. I
was forced to go to work. [It saved
my reason. Most folks think I never
shed a tear in my life. I've had fool
women say, ‘You don’t know what
trouble is!’ well, that’s that. You did
the best thing for yourself you eonld
when you got mad at me and stayed
home this afternoon. Joe's coming
to see you tonight. He's ready to go
down on his knees to you. He's a
pice boy and he’ll make a good pro-
vider. Now I'm going up to sleep tilt
supper-time.”
When at eight that evening Joe
Carson rang the door bell he was met
by a radiant sweetheart—radiant be-
cause she was happy and because she
was wearing every aid to beauty that
Mme. Luise’s magic box contained.
Expert Set to Decipher
Writing of Bonaparte
Just how good—or how bad—the
story (a love story called “Clisson and
Eugenie,” written by Napoleon Bona-
parte when he was 16) may be will
never be known, for Napoleon’s writ-
ing, always difficult to read, is here
at its worst.
As a novelist he is at a disadvan
tage resembling that of the learned
that
“none would ever know the extent of
his erudition, as no one could read his
writing, and when he talked no one
could understand him because of his
harelip.”
Napoleon is supposed to have bee.
a man of extraordinary coldness—with
an occasional outbreak of temper—
probably histrionic. I have a letter
written by Maret, the emperor's minis-
ter of foreign affairs, in which he
says: “The only calm person in this
crisis is the great man.” Physicians
poted that the emperor's pulse was
abnormally slow.
Conceding the calmness, the hand
writing of Napoleon is an argument
against the revelation of character by
autography. He wrote an exception-
ally bold hand, generally indicating
frantic haste and feverish excitement.
A page of his manuscript makes the
famous scrawl of Horace Greeley look
like copperplate by comparison. It is
told of Greeley that an irreverent com-
positor once let a fly half-drowned in
ink crawl over a paper and then went
to the great editor to protest that he
could not “make out this word.” Mr.
Greeley glanced at the fly-tracks and
promptly said the word was “unconsti-
tutional.”
Napoleon's writing is like that. For.
tunately there lives in Paris a gifted
creature employed as an expert by
Charavay, the leading authority on
French autographs. This solver of
eryptograms has deciphered most of
the manuscript of Napoleon’s fovea
story, though some paragraphs baffled
him.’
Nevertheless, he Is entitled to rank
with Oedipus and Champollion, and
should have a statue in the Invalides
peside the tomb of Napoleon, in-
scribed “The Man Who Can Read His
Writing.”—A. Vibert Douglas in Atlan.
tic Monthly.
put 1 loved his cousin
Horse Racing Popular
~~ With Ancient Peoples
The earliest recorded organized
trials of speed with horses were the
chariot races at the Greek national
festivals, of which the most notable
were the Olympic games held every
fourth year. Greek sculpture fre
quently represents the horse as used
for riding, apparently without a sad-
i dle in most cases; but not as so em-
ployed for sport, except as an incident
to the chariot racing. On the other
hand, the horses in the Roman con:
tests were to a very great extent rid
en. All the formalities of entering
and of differentiation of classes and,
of starting were minutely laid down
and followed, even to the color of the
riders’ unifdfm. In the earlier times
these Roman races were held on the
open plain, There has always been a
tradition in England that on Salis
pury plain, just outside Stonehenge.
the remains of a Roman race course
exist; and the oldest race which still
takes place in England is run over a
flat meadow just outside the walls of
the Roman city of Chester,—Washing-
ton Star.
East Indian Idol Held
in Supreme Veneration
The name Juggernaut itself is an
Anglicized corruption of the Hindu
Jagannath, the name of Vishnu or
Krishna in one of his manifestations.
It means literally “lord of the world.”
It is the name of an idol in the
vemple at Puri, India. The temple it-
self is a magnificent one, built in 1198,
at a cost of $2,500,000, while the idol
consists of an irregular block of stone,
pyramidal in shape, having two large
diamonds for eyes.
On its festal days the idol is con-
veyed to another shrine on a mag-
! nificent car, 45 feet high and 35 feet
i square, having 16 wheels, each T fect
{ in diameter. The number of pilgrims
who visit the temple was formerly es-
i timated at 1,200,000 a year. At the
' present day 100,000 or more miy as:
semble there on the great festivals.
Hohenzollern Family
| The Hohenzollerns trace their de
scent from Count Thassilo, who lived
, about the beginning of the Ninth cen-
, tury, and built a castle on Zollern hill
in the Swabian alps near Hechingen.
From this height his descendants de-
i rived their patronymic. A separation
took place about 1165 when Frederick
IV founded the elder or Swabian, and
| Conrad III, the younger or Franconian
line. The first was subdivided into the
branches of Hechingen and Sigmarin-.
gen in 1576. From the Emperor Sigis-
mund Frederick VI, of the younger
tine, received the investiture of the
electorate of Brandenburg, in 1415,
and founded the dynasty of kings of
Prussia and ‘German emperors that
reigned till November, 1918. The
branches of the elder line continued
unbroken till 1849. Then the reigning
princes surrendered their respective
rights and principalities to the king
of Prussia for annual pensions.—Lit-
erary Digest.
Term’s Meaning Changed
Originally the term “Salic law”
was only to a codification of the laws
of certain Germanic tribes, including
the Salian or Merovingian Franks.
These laws were codified in Latin in
the early Middle ages. They related
chiefly to property and penalties for
various injuries. .
The term is often applied exclusive:
ly to a section which relates to in-
heritances, and provides that onlv
males inherit property. Since the
Fourteenth century a further restric-
tion in application has attached it
chiefly to those laws, in whatever
eountry found, which forbid female
inheritance of the throne.
The Rose in History
{ Roses and romunce have been kin
through the centuries. They have
peen flung to knights in armor, have
: been worn beneath the coat of mail
| as heroes entered battle, have been
| strewn at the feet of returning con
querors, have lain in quiet peace on
the biers of the dead, have softened
the contours: of tombs and puriai
mounds, have marked the confident
pathways of brides, have been thrown
at the feet of idols. Wherever man
has sought to express what words
cannot say, the rose ‘has played ite
part.
Make Sure of Their Men
There is no flirting among the na-
tive married men of Tasmania. Capt.
Kilroy Harris, an Australian visiting
| ju this country, says that as a part of
the Tasmanian wedding ceremony the
bride's father knocks out one of the
pridegroom’s front teeth as a sign to
the world that he is married. Not sat-
isfied with that the wedding guests
cut gashes in the poor devil's back
and fill these with mud to make sure
the scars will be visible for life. And
he can’t wear a shirt for that would
arouse suspicion.—Capper's Weekly.
Few Places Without Bibles
Bibles have been distributed almost
the whole world over, by a small
army of nearly a thousand colpor-
teurs, who have followed the track
of. Don Quixote de la Mancha, and
¢limbed the mountain passes of Geor-
gla; entered the prisons in Formosa,
and traversed the forests of Nicaragua,
and sold gospels in the sulphur mines
of Sicily, on Japanese railway ears,
among the lumber camps of the St.
Lawrence and in’ the market places of
Qmdurman,
and willing worker and is neither ir-
ritable nor nervous.
—_Pullets and cockerels should be
kept in separate flocks if they are to
develop as they should.
— Fewer mistakes in culling hens
will be made when the flock has been
properly fed and the hens given a
chance to lay as many eggs as they
are capable of producing.
— Brace or bolt the main limbs of
badly crotched trees before the load
of fruit spreads the limbs apprecia-
bly. Particular attention should be
given to Northern Spy and North-
west Greening.
—The farmer who raises a few
colts now will have a goed source of
extra income within the next few
years. With a shortage of horses in
prospect, colts foaled this year will
sell for good prices in a couple of
years.
— Electricity on the farm for light-
ing alone is an expensive luxury; if
used for labor-saving devices it be-
comes a desirable convenience.
— When raspberries and blackber-
ries have been harvested, cut out and
burn the old fruiting canes. This
will help hold disease and insect in-
jury in check.
~_Good pasture for growing pigs,
brood sows, and all classes of swine
is so valuable that it often makes the
difference between profit and loss in
the hog business.
—1It has been demonstrated many
times by experiment stations as well
as by thousands of producers that
hogs do better and make larger gains
from a given amount of feed when
they have constant access to water.
Normally a hog drinks only small
quantities at a time, but it likes to
drink often. It will drink several
times during one feeding period when
it can run to a self-feeder at will
When the feed is thrown on the
ground or on a feeding floor where
the individual hog must eat incom-
petition with a large group, it is not
likely to stop for water so long as
there is grain to eat. But when it
can run to a self-feeder it soon learns
that there will be plenty of feed left
when it returns. Then it begins to
eat more deliberately and to drink
several times before it has satisfied
its hunger.
__All chickens intended for the
early market should receive as much
food as they will consume four times
daily.
Under good management it is pos-
sible to add half a pound weekly to
the weight of birds which have been
specially bred for the table.
Of course, in every flock there will
always be a few birds with a tend-
ency to put on very little flesh—in
fact, there is often some difficulty in
maintaining their weight.
Such birds should be marketed
without delay. If kept for special fat-
teping they frequently drift into an
unmarketable condition.
—Rape is one of the valuable crops
for pork production. Although it is
not a legume, rape compares favor-
ably in composition with alfalfa and
clover and is praticularly valuable as
a forage to help out these two crops
during July and August when they
are likely to make short growth.
Rape ranks close to alfalfa in the
number of hogs it will pasture per
acre. With a favorable
will support from ten to twenty
shoats.
—Speaking of the thousands of
forest trees planted last spring, for-
estry specialists of the Pennsylvania
State College call attention to the
absolute necessity of ordering trees
early for planting next spring. Your
county agent can help you decide
what type of trees are suitable for
your conditions. He can also get
you an application blank for trees to
be ordered from the State Depart-
ment of Forests and Waters.
— Despite the dry . weather there
will be many vegetables to store for
winter use. There are different re-
quirements for storage which should
be observed if the vegetables are to
keep well. Get a copy of Circular
120. The Family Vegetables Garden,
from your county
Agricultural
State College, Pa., for information
on storage and other garden opera-
tions.
__Dairy specialists at State Col-
lege say
dairy cows
and becomes rancid. It resembles
corn silage in feeding value.
—Mice girdle enough fruit trees in
the United States to cause an annual
loss of about $6,000,000. Why not
put some poisoned grain in your
orchard to destroy these pests and
prevent your share of this loss? This
is a good time to put out the bait.’
—Cutting corn low helps to con-
trol the European corn borer. Ensil-
ing and shredding are operations em-
ployed to destroy the insect. Clean-
ing up all trash is a necessary prac-
tice and it should be burned, buried,
or plowed under cleanly in the field.
Insects permitted to live will multi-
ply by the hundreds next year.
— Don’t get the idea that because
it is cold that your hens do mot
need anything but corn. Corn is all
right and has its place in the menu,
but if you want eggs, and also to
get your hens in good condition for
hatching they must have something
besides corn. Give them & good
egg mash and it will be better if it
is fed moist and warm, once a day.
Better still if it is fermented for 24
hours with yeast. Do not feed all
they want. Make them clean it up.
ely lp ee—
— Read the Watchman and get all
the news.
—A good ~ draft: horse isa ‘ready |
season it
agent or from the
Publications Office,
that apple pomace, a by-:
product of cider mills, can be fed to |
if used before it ferments
WAGES
Hx. wages depend on large output.
Loafing on the job ends in unemploy-
ment. The man who does only one half
of what he is capable of doing is a poor
economist. He thinks he is cheating his
employer but he is also cheating him-
self. He never gets ahead. Wages in the
United States are higher than anywhere
else. Why? Because the output is
greater.
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